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Hello and welcome to BBC World News Today. | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
Scientists reveal a breakthrough in understanding breast cancer. | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
An almost perfect picture of the genetic mutations that | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
lead to the disease, which could mean fresh | :00:16. | :00:16. | |
We should all be very optimistic, because we have more | :00:17. | :00:24. | |
opportunities now for thinking about new therapeutics than we've | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
ever had in the past and we know how to do it. | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
Russia and the US urge all parties in Syria to observe a ceasefire | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
as violence in Aleppo threatens the total collapse | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
Astronomers discover three planets close to our solar system | :00:39. | :00:48. | |
The Russian MP who feels his country's musical | :00:49. | :00:57. | |
traditions are under threat - from the Eurovision Song Contest. | :00:58. | :01:14. | |
It's been described as a hugely significant moment | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
which could help unlock new ways of treating and preventing | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
An international team of scientists has completed the largest-ever | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
genetic study of the disease, which they say gives them | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
a near complete picture of what causes breast cancer. | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
The study, which has just been published in Nature, | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
unpicked practically all the errors that cause healthy breast tissue | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
The team sequenced the whole genome of more | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
than 500 patients with breast cancer. | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
The scientists then looked at all three billion letters | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
of their genetic code - their entire blueprint of life. | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
They uncovered 93 sets of instructions, or genes, | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
Researchers say the information could help develop new drugs. | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
Our health correspondent, Dominic Hughes, has more. | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
Enjoying a spot of Bank Holiday Monday gardening, | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
Vanessa Babbage looks the picture of health. | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
But Vanessa has fought a long, arduous battle | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
After extensive surgery, chemo and radiotherapy, | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
she knows how devastating the disease and its treatment can be. | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
It's actually worse than the cancer itself, | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
because you are constantly ill, so they do try to help you to | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
minimise the side-effects by giving you other drugs to help the nausea | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
and things like that, so the treatment is very, very harsh. | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
Scanners like this one are used to detect and monitor cancerous tumours | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
once they've already developed, but to understand the underlying | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
causes of cancer, scientists have had to go much deeper, | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
to the level of DNA, to try and work out what happens | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
An international team of scientists, led by the Sanger Institute | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
in Cambridge, examined all three billion letters | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
What they've found has transformed the understanding of what happens | :03:06. | :03:15. | |
Getting a comprehensive collection of information, including the | :03:16. | :03:24. | |
mutations that are causing cancer, tells us something about why that | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
cancer is going wrong, why that cell is turning | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
into a cancerous cell, and if you can understand that, | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
you can understand the causes of the cancer, and then you can | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
This opens up the possibility of much greater individualised | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
treatments for cancer, targeting each of the mutations. | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
That's already happening with some treatments, like the drug | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
Herceptin, but experts believe this could be a big step forward. | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
What this study might achieve is finding | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
better treatments, matching them better to women. | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
By understanding the causes that underline the biology | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
of different types of the disease, we might be able to match better | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
treatments and offer them things that are more likely | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
Back at home, Vanessa Babbage is moving on with her life after | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
cancer, and she is optimistic that science is starting to make real | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
headway in the fight against the disease. | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
It gives people hope, because when people are affected | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
by someone that they love and they have breast cancer, | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
they hope for a better future for other women that are going to be | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
This research has transformed the understanding of cancer, | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
and offers the tantalising prospect it could prevent the disease | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
Dominic Hughes joins me now from our studio in Manchester. | :04:39. | :04:49. | |
It sounds as though this was a very complex piece of research. | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
Her very significant study, the largest of its kind looking at those | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
560 different patients who are all experienced breast cancer, decoding | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
more than 3 billion bits of DNA across those 560 patients. It is | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
significant as well because that DMA is a record of what happens to us | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
throughout our lives, from the moment we start life as a tiny | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
fertilised egg in our mothers with breakthrough to adult food through | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
the course of life. Records all the damage we sustain both from the | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
environment and infections and from that the scientists are able to | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
glean some clues about what underlies the cancerous tumours that | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
some that they are susceptible to. This is being hailed | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
as a big breakthrough. How much progress in the fight | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
against cancer have It is interesting when you think it | :05:43. | :05:50. | |
wasn't that long ago that breast cancer was seen as a one disease. | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
Now we know which there are many different types of breast cancer, | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
and this kind of sequencing of DNA is really seen as a very big step | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
forward in trying to unravel some of the mysteries that lie at the heart | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
of cancer. Why do some tissues turn from healthy to cancerous tissue? | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
What we have seen today is a big step forward, and the key thing they | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
are talking about is trying to does decimate lead to a breakthrough in | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
individualised treatments. Instead of treating people as though they | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
have one disease, breast cancer, they can say this is at a particular | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
type of breast cancer, and also it may tell scientists how someone | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
might respond to a particular treatment, so it opens up all sorts | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
of possibilities. Dominick, thank you very much. | :06:41. | :06:41. | |
Astronomers have announced the discovery of three planets | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
relatively close to our solar system which could be able to sustain life. | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
The three orbit an ultra-cool dwarf star 39 light-years away | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
and are comparable in size and probably also temperature | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
Dr Michael Gillon is an astronomer from the University | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
He led the team of researchers who discovered the planets | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
Tell us a little more about what you found. Hello. We have discovered | :07:00. | :07:11. | |
three planets orbiting a nearby star, which is extremely small, the | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
size of Jupiter. These planets are very interesting because they are | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
irradiated at the same level, more or less, as Venus, Earth and Mars. | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
This means they could tap water and maybe life. Furthermore what is | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
interesting is they are well-suited for detailed study of the | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
atmospheric composition with existing technology, telescopes that | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
are about to began operating. This means we can really study this | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
planet and even detect life on these planets right now. So we could do | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
this remotely? Yes, indeed. Just by using telescopes and by working at | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
the atmospheric composition -- looking at the atmospheric | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
composition of the solar system. The atmosphere would block the light of | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
the start, and this effect will depend on the composition of the | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
atmosphere. We know they are 39 light-years away, which sounds like | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
an awfully long distance, but an Astra and call times for scientists | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
like you that is close. -- in astronomical terms. Yes, very close. | :08:34. | :08:43. | |
The Milky Way is a big disc of 300 billion stars, and this one is among | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
the 1000 most nearby stars, saw it really is a star in the | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
neighbourhood of the sun. How does that help understand our universe if | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
we can find out more about these particular planets' make up? What | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
does it do for us? It could help us to understand how unique is our | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
terrestrial planets, especially our planet, and how unique is life in | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
the universe, which is a very important question to answer. | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
Further more it helps us understand other environments, because these | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
planets even if they are like the Earth in terms of size and | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
radiation, should be like the Earth, -- deference to the Earth, because | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
there are stories different to the sun. It is all part of a very | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
ambitious project. Yes, this research was obtained with a | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
prototype telescope that we have in Chile. It is a prototype for a | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
bigger project about to start, which will explore the nearest star is for | :09:52. | :10:01. | |
which we could have temperatures of planets which are well-suited for | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
detailed studies. And to catalogue planets like Earth in which we could | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
detect life in the next decade. Thank you very much. We wish you | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
luck with your project. US Secretary of State John Kerry | :10:19. | :10:19. | |
says foreign powers are "getting closer to a place of understanding" | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
at talks in Geneva - trying There's been a two month pause | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
in hostilities, but the last ten days have seen | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
an upsurge of violence. Mr Kerry said a renewed | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
ceasefire must include the besieged city of Aleppo, | :10:32. | :10:32. | |
where more than 250 civilians have Our correspondent Barbara | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
Plett-Usher has been travelling War has returned to Syria's | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
largest city after two The air strikes on a hospital last | :10:39. | :10:48. | |
week thrust the carnage back into the spotlight, | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
but hundreds of civilians have been killed in the past | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
ten days of fighting. The Syrian military says | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
it is targeting Jihadists, But the lines between such groups | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
and other rebels in Aleppo If the cease-fire breaks down here, | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
it may crumble across the country. The crisis triggered | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
emergency meetings in Geneva, the city that's been hosting | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
Syrian peace talks. America's top diplomat came | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
here to try to salvage the truce. We are engaged in an effort | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
with all of the members of the International | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
Syria Support Group, and with Russia particularly, | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
in an effort to restore that cessation of hostilities in those | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
places where it has been most There is no excuse for not finding, | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
again, a reinvigorating and reinstalling and re-implementing | :11:46. | :11:56. | |
what has been the only strong message the Syrian people have | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
heard from all of us. Mr Kerry is urging Moscow | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
to push its Syrian ally to stop But the most he announced | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
was a joint agreement to strengthen the monitoring | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
and implementation of the truce. So they are wrestling with a formula | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
to bring quiet back to Aleppo. There will be intensive talks | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
involving the Russians Mr Kerry said there should soon be | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
greater clarity about the details of But the bigger question | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
is whether Damascus and Moscow are serious | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
about the UN path to peace, or whether they are using it to make | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
military gains on the ground. Barbara Plett-Usher, | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
BBC News, Geneva. Leading Iraqi members of parliament | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
have called on Prime Minister MPs are demanding the creation | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
of a new Government, excluding the political party | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
of the Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who they blame for ordering | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
anti-government protesters to storm Our correspondent Ahmed Maher has | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
had special access to the main hall of the Iraqi parliament | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
and sends this report. We are in the main hall | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
of the Iraqi parliament, the centre of the unprecedented | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
political crisis. This parliament descended into chaos | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
after anti-government protesters stormed this hall | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
and ransacked its furniture. They damaged headphones, speaker | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
devices, and scattered documents, This place is one of the main | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
symbols of power and authority in Iraq, and that's why | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
the anti-government protesters chose it to send a strong message | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
to the MPs who used to be seated here in this session | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
that they are fed up, angry, at their failure to choose | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
the long-awaited cabinet of technocrats | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
or non-partisan ministers. They are aiming at pressuring | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
the embattled government of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
into enacting the promised reforms, That was our correspondent | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
Ahmed Maher reporting from A British company has apologised | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
for selling a cleaning product that led to a number of deaths | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
in South Korea. About 100 people died | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
after inhaling toxic fumes from liquids used to clean | :14:17. | :14:18. | |
humidifiers, although only some of those deaths are linked | :14:19. | :14:20. | |
to the British company. At an emotional news conference | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
in Seoul, an executive At one point, a man jumped | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
on stage and slapped him The health risks from | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
the disinfectants were first discovered in 2011 after several | :14:32. | :14:40. | |
pregnant women died Later that year, authorities said | :14:41. | :14:42. | |
the chemicals PHMG and PGH in the disinfectants used to cleanse | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
humidifiers were to blame. Nearly all households in South Korea | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
use a humidifier Reckitt Benckiser sold millions | :14:52. | :14:53. | |
of bottles of liquid disinfectant, called Oxy Ssak Ssak, | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
containing the harmful chemicals It's among several firms | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
whose products are blamed For five years the | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
company had refused Reckitt Benckiser now says | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
it'll come up with a plan It's also setting up a multi-million | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
dollar humanitarian fund An Australian computer scientist has | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
ended years of speculation, saying he is the creator | :15:20. | :15:27. | |
of the controversial Dr Craig Wright, who lives | :15:28. | :15:29. | |
in London, showed the BBC evidence that he launched the currency, | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
back in 2009, using a pseudonym. Dr Wright is believed to hold | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of Bitcoins, | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
which are a virtual currency transferred via the internet, | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
and which can be exchanged This report from our technology | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
correspondent Rory Cellan Jones. In an office in London, | :15:48. | :15:56. | |
a mystery that has been an Internet obsession for seven years | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
is about to be solved. So you are going to show me that | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
Satoshi Nakamoto is you? If that's true, then | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
Craig Wright is the reason Bitcoin is a currency invented | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
on the Internet and designed to operate outside the control | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
of any central bank. Its value and its reputation - it's | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
being widely used by criminals - And there is a chain of Bitcoin cash | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
machines called SatoshiPoints. It was back in 2008 that someone | :16:31. | :16:43. | |
calling themselves Satoshi Nakamoto published a paper on the Internet | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
describing a plan for Bitcoin. It was the following the year | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
that he released the software Ever since, Satoshi's precise | :16:52. | :16:53. | |
identity has been a mystery. But there have been | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
a number of false trails. In the search for Satoshi, | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
a number of people, I think we will probably start | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
with Dr Craig Wright... Last year, there was speculation | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
about Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist, here seen | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
speaking at a Bitcoin convention. Now he's confirmed that he is | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
Satoshi Nakamoto. Some people will believe, | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
some people won't. To tell you the truth, | :17:27. | :17:28. | |
I don't really care. You can say, hand on heart, | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
to me, "I am Satoshi Nakamoto"? He showed us that he possessed | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
the unique digital signature used by Nakamoto in the very first | :17:39. | :17:46. | |
Bitcoin transaction. That is the first generated | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
and transferred Bitcoin ever. That evidence has been shown | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
to a Bitcoin expert who says Dr Wright's achievement | :17:54. | :17:55. | |
can't be overstated. If Bitcoin is the separation | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
of money and state, I put this achievement on the scale | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
of the Gutenberg printing press, which was the beginning | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
of the decline of the Vatican's power, once we could have | :18:11. | :18:20. | |
mass printing of things. Last December, the Australian tax | :18:21. | :18:22. | |
authorities searched He says they are auditing his | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
businesses and don't He wouldn't tell us how wealthy | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
the currency has made him, but made clear he didn't want to be | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
a public figure. I don't want money, I don't want | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
fame, I don't want adoration. I'm going to do this | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
once and once only. I'm going to come in front | :18:38. | :18:46. | |
of the camera once. And I will never, ever be | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
on a camera ever again, for any TV station, | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
or any media, ever. If he's to be believed | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
he is a modern-day Midas, the man who conjured | :19:00. | :19:01. | |
new money out of thin air. It's a remarkable achievement | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
but having emerged from the shadows, Craig "Satoshi Nakamoto" Wright now | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
wants to disappear once more. Dr Wright's claim has | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
divided opinion online, with some observers casting doubt | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
on whether he's provided enough proof that he is indeed | :19:21. | :19:22. | |
the creator of Bitcoin. Users of the chat site | :19:23. | :19:24. | |
Reddit have been pointing out in the method Mr Wright used, | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
saying that the signature he used Technology journalist Lorenzo | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
Franceschi-Bicchierai also questions in his demonstration and uses | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
another one in private - "how does that make | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
any sense?", he asks. points out that Gavin Andresen, | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
chief scientist of the Bitcoin Foundation, has said he believes | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
Mr Wright's claim is true. Now a look at some of | :19:50. | :19:58. | |
the day's other news. The Republican presidential | :19:59. | :20:07. | |
frontrunner Donald Trump has stepped up his criticism of Chinese trade | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
policy. He said Beijing was conducting the greatest theft in the | :20:14. | :20:14. | |
history of the world. The mosquito-borne Zika virus may | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
be even more dangerous than previously thought, | :20:18. | :20:19. | |
scientists in Brazil say. They told the BBC that Zika could be | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
behind more damaging neurological conditions, | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
affecting the babies of up to A solar-powered plane has | :20:25. | :20:25. | |
taken off from California for the state of Arizona, | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
the latest stage of its The 16-hour flight will take | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
the Solar Impulse to Solar Impulse began its attempt | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
to circumnavigate the globe in March last year in Abu Dhabi, | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
but the flight was delayed by the need for lengthy repairs | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
after its batteries overheated. It's that time of year again - | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
next week, hundreds of millions of viewers around the world | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
will tune in to watch the annual extravaganza | :20:54. | :20:55. | |
that is the Eurovision Song Contest. But sequins and Euro pop are not | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
to everyone's taste. In Russia, one MP is planning | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
a rival contest with Our musical correspondent, | :21:01. | :21:02. | |
Steve Rosenberg, reports Hang on, who feels threatened | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
by that? Oleg Nilov is a Russian MP | :21:06. | :21:35. | |
on a crooning crusade to promote He loves folk songs and loathes | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
the Europop invading Russia. TRANSLATION: You don't need weapons | :21:43. | :21:51. | |
to conquer a country, The minds of our young | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
people are coming under the influence of TV, | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
trying to impose Two years ago, when Eurovision | :22:00. | :22:01. | |
was won by Conchita, the bearded lady, he was | :22:02. | :22:14. | |
so shocked, he did this. He sings, "Black crow, | :22:15. | :22:16. | |
why are you circling above us?" What the MP wants to hear | :22:17. | :22:27. | |
is more music like this. He is planning a rival | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
to Eurovision called Good Vision, where all the songs | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
will be, well, good. TRANSLATION: The songs will be folk | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
style, with national instruments I am sure this will get more viewers | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
and be more useful. Mind you, not everyone here | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
is out of tune with This year's Russian entrant believes | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
Eurovision can promote I really like the main message | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
that this Eurovision Because the music does | :23:03. | :23:12. | |
not have any religion, But Oleg Nilov is sticking | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
with what he knows best. With a chorus like that, | :23:18. | :23:31. | |
perhaps he should enter Eurovision. A very different sound. Thousands of | :23:32. | :24:02. | |
people gathered in commemoration of one of Africa's stars. | :24:03. | :24:13. | |
Thousands gathered in front of Congo's National Assembly to try and | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
catch a glimpse of what was going inside. One of the culture 's most | :24:17. | :24:33. | |
beloved ambassadors. People sometimes think when you speak about | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
Congolese music, it makes you dance, but no structure. The president | :24:39. | :24:49. | |
himself honoured Papa Wemba with one of the highest national titles for | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
his services to Congolese music and the world. Papa Wemba's body was | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
carried out of the National Assembly at midday. Papa Wemba's body has | :24:58. | :25:06. | |
been taken to his family home in this neighbourhood, it is a bustling | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
place. There are thousands of people here including many highly | :25:11. | :25:19. | |
fashionable ones. Papa Wemba was really the saviour of the Society of | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
elegant people. Everywhere he went he promoted Congolese style. We have | :25:24. | :25:32. | |
lost him today and it is a great sadness. The party will continue for | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
most of today and tomorrow as the Congolese celebrate their hero. Papa | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
Wemba, forever an icon and an inspiration you will be varied in | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
the capital on Wednesday. Our main story - a team of | :25:44. | :25:53. | |
scientists has completed the largest ever genetic study of breast cancer | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
which they say gives a near complete picture of what | :26:00. | :26:12. | |
Good evening. Better news for the week ahead, | :26:13. | :26:13. |